Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-08-18
CHROME YELLOW IN PITTS
RCRG.
Twenty-Threc People Poisoned by
Eating Confectionery.

RURG.
Twenty-Threc People Poisoned by
Eating Confectionery.
PITTsBURG, August l3.-Chrome
yellow or some equally deadly COM
pound seems to have become an active
ingredient of sPittsburg confectionery,
as no less than twenty.three persons
living in the Seventeenth ward are ly-
ing more or less i'll from the effects Of
poison. A little daughter Of Charles
Baker, contractor, who lives on Forty
sixth street, bought custard cake at
the grocery store OF l.. J. Louise, corner
Centre and Forty. fifth streets, yester-
day. This cake was partaken of at the
morning meals by the entire family and
one or TWO of the boarders. BY noon
all who had eaten of the confection
were suffering with violent pains,
coupled with nausea. Emetics, under
medical aid, were promptly adminis-
tered, and although for while 1t was
doubted if any would recover at late
hour last night the patients were sup
posed to be out of danger.
Besides Mr.. and Mrs. Baker and
their three children, Lizzie McCarth,
servant William and Robert Rice and
John Craigg, boarders, we've the other
victims. Mrs. Logue and Minnie
/ Calw alader, nurse girl. who had eaten
some uI the grocer's cake the night
previous were also very sick, with the
indications OF poison. J. J. Shafer, a
grocery. who lives on Forty fifth street
and family, also bought and ate a
quantity of the cake and are more or
! less i'll. Besides the Skaters two SIS
/ ters of Mrs. Shafer and niece consti-
tute the family. They were all affected
to a greater or less extent. A butcher
named Simon, who lives in the same
locality, his wife and four children, ate
of the deadly cake and are yet very
sick. l.. J. Logue, the grocer who
sold the cake, alleges he purchashed il
at q baker shop in the East End.
Investigating the Cause OF the Firing
| of the Railroad Bridge, where so
Many Lost Their Lives.
J. o. Baker, president Of the lllinoi
Society of Engineers, and professor oI
civil engineering in the University o
Illinois, has made a careful persona
examination of the condition Of th'
other bridges and culverts, and protec
tion from fire given these culverts by
road ssoilicials and track hands. III
said {:
1.-THE incendiary theory has no foun
dation whatever. l am unable person
ally to find any .citizens of Chatswortl
who have seen suspicious character
lettering about as required by that the
ory. The flames of the burning cul
vert were plainly seen from Chatswortl
at intervals for several hours befor
the accident. From the lay of the lant
they must have risen five or six feet a
bove the track TO have been seen so fa
1t is plain that an attempt had beel
made to protect the bridges of the roa'
from fire. but personal inspection o
other culverts in that vicinity show
that it was not done so as 10 aifort
completely protection. A personal in
spection along the line of the road fo
several miles shows that grass an,
weeds were not at all burned off, bu
many patches were left unburned, ant
in the immediate vicinity it was NOR
carelessly done than elsewhere. Th
culvert itself was Of the usual bull
and of abundant strength to carry til
train but for the fire, which had de
stroyed the lower portion"
HOW THE BRIDGE WAS FIRED.
He added he thought it probable thu
the fire left by the section men late
afternoon, who by their own testi
mony admitted that there was burnin
grass only forty rods away was drive
down to the culvert when they lef
by slight change of wind. Otherwis
it is possible that sparks from u
special train Of the superintendent Q
bridges, the last train before the fate
excursion, kindled in the grass nea
the culvert and burned slowly for
long time and finally bred the culver
A Captains Fortunate Discovery.
Capt. Coleman, schr. Weymouth, plying b
tween Atlantic City and n. Y. had been trou
) led with a cough so that he was unable to slee
. and was induced to try DR.. Kings New Disco
cry for consumption. 1t not only gave him 1
slant relief, but alayed the extreme soreness
his breast. His children We're similarly a1eC
} ed and n single dose had the same happy effeC
f DIR. Kings New Discovery is now the standal
remedy in the Coleman household and on boal